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Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 6: Jammu and Kashmir police has filed an FIR in an alleged conversion of non-local in Srinagar’s Hazratbal Shrine on Friday.
A video of the conversion had gone viral on social media on Friday
The FIR has been registered against the non local who converted- and a Srinagar resident for allegedly preparing him mentally to convert.
The FIR was registered in Police station Nigeen in Srinagar under sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant), 298 (uttering words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings intentionally) 153 (wantonly giving provocation, with intent to cause riot and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence) of the Indian Penal Code.
In the FIR, police says that they received an information through reliable sources that a news was being circulated on the social media especially Facebook in which a non local from from Haryana converted during Friday congregational prayers at Hazratbal Shrine.
The said news caused chaos which may stoke communal hatred, the FIR read.
It added that District Magistrate Sringar had earlier issued an order in which media houses both print and electronic were warned of uploading any material leading to communal frenzy or hurting religious sentiments of people or which may prove detrimental to the peace.
The FIR said the non local was working in the house of a Srinagar resident and he motivated him to convert.
Investigation of the case is underway.
A police officer confirmed the registration of the case in the incident. |
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